HOSSEIN HASHEMI NAMED TO GORDON S. MARSHALL EARLY CAREER CHAIR
Dean Yannis Yortsos also announced the appointment of Hossein Hashemi (Electrical Engineering) to the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair at the Viterbi School. The appointment is a reflection of Hashemi’s exceptional distinction and promise as a young member of the faculty.

TWO VITERBI PROFESSORS ELECTED ACM FELLOWS
Viktor Prasanna (Electrical Engineering) and Ari Requicha (Computer Science) were named fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the top professional society in computing. The Viterbi School was of only five schools worldwide with more than one elected.

CMU ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAGE IS THIS YEAR’S BEKEY LECTURER Raj Reddy, the Carnegie-Mellon professor who founded that school's well-known Robotics Institute, delivered the Viterbi School Computer Science department’s second annual keynote lecture to a rapt capacity crowd that included the lecture’s namesake, longtime Viterbi distinguished professor and robotics pioneer George Bekey.

VITERBI BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HOSTS FIRST GRODINS LECTURE MIT bioengineering leader Douglas Lauffenburger, who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his many “contributions interfacing modern biology with engineering principles,” presented the department’s annual keynote lecture, named for its founding chair, Fred S. Grodins.

IT’S “ANCHORS AWEIGH” AT THE VITERBI SCHOOL
ISE doctoral student and former Navy systems installer Yvette Torres, with a little help from her USC friends, charts a new career course in academia. MR. AND MS. USC – MEET THEM AT VITERBI
For the first time ever, two Viterbi seniors, Reed Doucette and Althea Lyman, were selected “Mr. and Ms. USC” by the Order of the Torch, an exclusive USC student honors society. They were chosen based on their accomplishments and their service to the university, the community and their fellow USC students.